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-rw-r--r--meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass b/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass
index 67ab4161da..e8996cf59b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/kernel-module-split.bbclass
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ python split_kernel_module_packages () {
tmpfile = tf[1]
cmd = "%sobjcopy -j .modinfo -O binary %s %s" % (d.getVar("HOST_PREFIX") or "", file, tmpfile)
subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)
- f = open(tmpfile)
+ # errors='replace': Some old kernel versions contain invalid utf-8 characters in mod descriptions (like 0xf6, 'รถ')
+ f = open(tmpfile, errors='replace')
l = f.read().split("\000")
f.close()
os.close(tf[0])